Lance Serjeant ANGUS ARMSTRONG (photo added)



Rank | Lance Serjeant |
Forenames | ANGUS |
Surname | ARMSTRONG (photo added) |
Initials | A |
Place of Birth |
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Date of Birth | Thursday, 26 August 1909 |
Date of Death | Monday, 12 June 1944 |
Age | 34 |
Nationality |
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Residence or Entered Service From | SUNDERLAND, COUNTY DURHAM, UNITED KINGDOM |
Service Number | 4446823 | Force |
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Service/Corps/Regiment |
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Unit / Ship / Battalion / Squadron | 12 Parachute Battalion (6th Airborne Division) |
Military Honours and Awards | 1939-1945 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, 1939-1945 War Medal |
Place of Burial/Commemoration |
RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Roll of honour |
Grave/Memorial Location | IVA. D. 11. |
Previous Place(s) of Burial | Unknown |
Epitaph | WITH TENDER LOVE. DEEP REGRET WE WHO LOVED YOU NEVER FORGET |
Family Details | SON OF ARCHIBALD AND ELEANOR ARMSTRONG, OF SUNDERLAND, COUNTY DURHAM; HUSBAND OF BEATRICE HELENA ARMSTRONG, OF HUMBLEDON, SUNDERLAND. |
Additional Information
ANGUS ARMSTRONG was the youngest of 12 children born to Achibald and Ellen Armstrong. He enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry at the age of 18 but was immediately transferred into the Green Howards. He served in Egypt, China and India be fore leaving the army in 1935 when he met his wife and started work in the Sunderland shipyards as a boiler maker.
He had one son, Angus who was born in 1937. He was killed while serving with A Company, 12 Parachute Battalion, in the village of Bréville during the attack to liberate the village. He was killed by mortar fire.1
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1. | All Photographs and additional information, unless otherwise credited, kindly provided by Helen Ingham, great Niece of Lance Sejeant ANGUS ARMSTRONG. |
Acknowledgements and Credits |
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Source of original data: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Headstone photograph: | Carl Shilleto |
Cross marker photograph: | |
Individual photograph: | Helen Ingham, great Niece of Lance Sejeant ANGUS ARMSTRONG. |
Additional photographs provided by: | Helen Ingham, great Niece of Lance Sejeant ANGUS ARMSTRONG and Carl Shilleto. |
Additional information provided by: | Helen Ingham, great Niece of Lance Sejeant ANGUS ARMSTRONG. |
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Helen Ingham
To the members of the 12th Yorkshire Parachute Regiment and all those who fought and gave their lives, thank you.
On Sunday, April 6, 2014